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This arrived in my inbox this morning ...
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Dear eBay User,
During our regular udpate and verification of the accounts, we couldn't verify your current information. Either your information has changed or it is incomplete.
As a result, your access to bid or buy on Ebay has been restricted. To start using your eBay account fully, please update and verify your information by clicking below :
https://scgi.ebay.com/saw-cgi/ eBayISAPI.dll?VerifyInformation
Regards,
eBay
**Please Do Not Reply To This E-Mail As You Will Not Receive A Responce**
in 1937 YWp in 1889 in 1987 I must be off in 1972 gTrvWLt cFUAWtaeZyP xR
I am a We'd like to see Let me... 090 We'd like to see 2 Why not? 280 in 1834 try to understand
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I read it and thought "Fair enough" so I clicked on the link to be met with an official-ish looking page asking me for various details like eBay username, password, full name etc. Then I came to 'Social Security Number' (which is the American equivalent of our National Insurance number) and I started to get suspicious. My suspicions were confirmed when, not only did it ask for my credit card number and expiration date, but my ATM PIN (i.e. my cash card PIN).
Obviously I realised that it was a scam and closed the window.
Anyone else had one of these?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Dear eBay User,
During our regular udpate and verification of the accounts, we couldn't verify your current information. Either your information has changed or it is incomplete.
As a result, your access to bid or buy on Ebay has been restricted. To start using your eBay account fully, please update and verify your information by clicking below :
https://scgi.ebay.com/saw-cgi/ eBayISAPI.dll?VerifyInformation
Regards,
eBay
**Please Do Not Reply To This E-Mail As You Will Not Receive A Responce**
in 1937 YWp in 1889 in 1987 I must be off in 1972 gTrvWLt cFUAWtaeZyP xR
I am a We'd like to see Let me... 090 We'd like to see 2 Why not? 280 in 1834 try to understand
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I read it and thought "Fair enough" so I clicked on the link to be met with an official-ish looking page asking me for various details like eBay username, password, full name etc. Then I came to 'Social Security Number' (which is the American equivalent of our National Insurance number) and I started to get suspicious. My suspicions were confirmed when, not only did it ask for my credit card number and expiration date, but my ATM PIN (i.e. my cash card PIN).
Obviously I realised that it was a scam and closed the window.
Anyone else had one of these?
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wrong, just wrong!
It seems liek they've just nicked eBay's address and added s' where they needed to.
There's warnings about it in the top right corner of 'My eBay' pages.
They are idiots indeed. They spelt "response" wrong.
I saw a piece about this on the news the other day. They are trying to clamp down on the idiots who do these scams but the numbers of them seem to keep rising.
By the way, the last two lines of the email were white text on a white background and so weren't visible until I highlighted it to copy and paste it here.
This arrived in my inbox this morning ...
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Dear eBay User,
During our regular udpate and verification of the accounts, we couldn't verify your current information. Either your information has changed or it is incomplete.
As a result, your access to bid or buy on Ebay has been restricted. To start using your eBay account fully, please update and verify your information by clicking below :
https://scgi.ebay.com/saw-cgi/ eBayISAPI.dll?VerifyInformation
Regards,
eBay
**Please Do Not Reply To This E-Mail As You Will Not Receive A Responce**
in 1937 YWp in 1889 in 1987 I must be off in 1972 gTrvWLt cFUAWtaeZyP xR
I am a We'd like to see Let me... 090 We'd like to see 2 Why not? 280 in 1834 try to understand
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I read it and thought "Fair enough" so I clicked on the link to be met with an official-ish looking page asking me for various details like eBay username, password, full name etc. Then I came to 'Social Security Number' (which is the American equivalent of our National Insurance number) and I started to get suspicious. My suspicions were confirmed when, not only did it ask for my credit card number and expiration date, but my ATM PIN (i.e. my cash card PIN).
Obviously I realised that it was a scam and closed the window.
Anyone else had one of these?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Dear eBay User,
During our regular udpate and verification of the accounts, we couldn't verify your current information. Either your information has changed or it is incomplete.
As a result, your access to bid or buy on Ebay has been restricted. To start using your eBay account fully, please update and verify your information by clicking below :
https://scgi.ebay.com/saw-cgi/ eBayISAPI.dll?VerifyInformation
Regards,
eBay
**Please Do Not Reply To This E-Mail As You Will Not Receive A Responce**
in 1937 YWp in 1889 in 1987 I must be off in 1972 gTrvWLt cFUAWtaeZyP xR
I am a We'd like to see Let me... 090 We'd like to see 2 Why not? 280 in 1834 try to understand
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I read it and thought "Fair enough" so I clicked on the link to be met with an official-ish looking page asking me for various details like eBay username, password, full name etc. Then I came to 'Social Security Number' (which is the American equivalent of our National Insurance number) and I started to get suspicious. My suspicions were confirmed when, not only did it ask for my credit card number and expiration date, but my ATM PIN (i.e. my cash card PIN).
Obviously I realised that it was a scam and closed the window.
Anyone else had one of these?
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